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  • From: David Minton <dminton AT mindspring.com>
  • To: InterNetWorkers <internetworkers AT franklin.oit.unc.edu>
  • Subject: Re: UNIX is the devil's work
  • Date: Tue, 23 Apr 2002 18:28:18 -0400


Sorry, my thread got redirected to a new topic, I didn't realize you had
started referring to a different article. I was referring to the original
"UNIX is the devil's work."

The rest of the original site was pretty scary stuff :-0

David

On 4/23/02 6:14 PM, "Tanner Lovelace" <lovelace AT wayfarer.org> wrote:

> No, actually, this one
> On Tue, 2002-04-23 at 15:28, David Minton wrote:
>> The scary thing is I think the guy may have been serious. You may have seen
>> something similar, but this one must be more recent, since it refers to Mac
>> OS X, which is only about a year old.
>
> Actually, you're probably thinking about the previous URL that was
> posted. Taking a look at the URL I was refering toon
> (http://www.netfunny.com/rhf/jokes/new89/satan.773.html), it says
> it comes from "Linda Branagan--Convex doc. writer and Connie Dobbs
> look-alike" Doing a quick search on the web for Linda Branagan, I
> find her web page with her resume at http://www.well.com/~lgb/linda.html
> which notes that she worked at Convex from January 1989 - August 1993.
>
> So, the latest this story could be from is August 1993. Looking
> at the URL, however, which says "new89", I would bet that it's
> actually from 1989. It most definitely, however, does not
> refer to Mac OS X. Instead, it refers to BSD.
>
> Tanner Lovelace





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